Augmentation of Object-Oriented Programming by Concepts of Abstract Data Type Theory: The ModPascal Experience

Abstract

Object-oriented programming and abstract data type (ADT) theory have emerged from the same origin of computer science: the inability to deal efficiently with 'programming in the large' during the early seventies. Each of the approaches has led to significant practical and theoretical results resp. Nevertheless it is still unsatisfactory that up to now the mutual influence seems to be limited to more or less syntactical issues (e.g. the provision of packages, clusters, forms).